[Rant] AmigaOS and DE integration CANCELLED? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 22-Mar-2004 09:03 GMT by Vmachine | 93 comments View flat View list |
I've been a registered AmigaDE developer for years, and now Amiga Inc drop this bomb on us? They've been _promising_ us that our developement efforts would be put forth in AmigaOS! they've been promising us this for years! There was 3000 of us at one point, and you've just alienated ALL of us! We've worked for NOTHING. LIARS! You've screwed us ALL over. Again!!
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Posted by Anonymous on 22-Mar-2004 16:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 48 (Don Cox): > And the problem with that half-baked plan is that what makes the Amiga OS good
> is mainly in the kernel (fast switching etc) and low level graphics libraries.
Yes, you're right. But apart from that you could easily implement AmigaOS
libraries on top of intent (which in itself is even more granular and every
library _function_ is a file and loaded/unloaded as needed), AmigaInc. also
weren't talking about an OS running on a 68060/50 MHz, but on a multitude of
(mostly and/or much) more powerful processors and devices. Being "processor
and OS agnostic" was more a target than building a mimikri of AmigaOS. And they
did not say otherwise. Stupid or not.
> Just sticking the high level parts on top of another OS does not give you an
> Amiga.
Surely not. Just as sticking an A/Box on top of any Quark does not give you
an Amiga. That was not what they were saying they are doing, that was what
the commmunity were expecting them to do (apart from continuing the AmigaOS
itself and providing new hardware). |
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